What non F-body project are you working on? Options

[ESPCamaro]

I bought an 88 Suzuki Samurai in October.
Should be a fun off-road truck.

Probably all I will do at first is a bunch of armor stuff-gas tank, t-case, rock sliders, cage. Swap to 5.14 gears with mini spool in the rear.
Re-do the brakes, new cheap shocks (may even skip this) and get the engine working flawlessly (since getting stranded in the woods would be REALLY bad.

I figure if it's something we like I'll get more radical with it.

AFAIK Sgarnett and Judd are the only ones here that are remotely interested in something like this.

[02midevil]

A Cad 500 powered ugly big body 1977 Malibu.

Motor is medium-wild with what was 350hp and 500+ tq, before bigger cam and ported heads.
Rear is a peg leg 2.56 gears.
Trans is th400.
Body is semi worn with old paint.

It broke the bank last year so this year its running or its gone/sold by April 1st.

I was shooting for 170mph in the mile in NC or TX. But now it better just be running.

Oh yeah the real fun project for my 5 year old son :leaving: :
Mount the body and move the pedals on an old racing kart-w/a new brigsNstratton Raptor. My 5 year old can already counter steer a slide (I know drift) and do donuts. He has only practiced steering no pedals yets. Need to gear it down so the top speed isn't 70-80mph :drive: .

This post has been edited by 77chevy: Dec 28 2005, 02:00 PM

[John Boelte]

A Samurai does sound like fun! Living in the city of Indianapolis, I don't know where I could go 'wheeling. Not enough time and money for that anyway. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

I'm working on an '84 Pontiac Fiero. I bought it for $200; overall it's in decent shape, but needed a lot of mechanical stuff fixed on it. I've rebuilt the hydraulic clutch system, replaced the clutch pedal (bent), throw out arm on the transmission (cracked), replaced the shifter cables, rebuilt the brake hydraulics, replaced the parking brake cable, converted the fronts to vented disk, replaced the rear struts, replaced the fuel pump and strainer, and I'm now working on the retractable headlight motors. It's nearly ready for the road. I need tires, front shocks, alternator, and exhaust. With 92HP it won't be a monster, but it should be fun. The guys on the Fiero forum (www.fiero.nl) are absolutely nuts over them. I'm looking forward to driving it. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/thumbup.gif)

[patred]

See avatar. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)

'92 Sentra SE-R. For you dumbestic philistines, it has a 2.0 liter, 140hp engine (non-SE-Rs of that era have a 1.6, 110hp). This is my fourth SE-R.

I bought it for autox and open-tracking. Definetely going to do a full suspension upgrade (shortened shocks, heavier springs, bars, yada yada yada) just not sure what shocks I'm going to get.

Thinking about doing an SR20VE swap. SR20VE's are kind of Nissan's answer to VTEC (Nissan calls it VVL), and of course Nissan doesn't put the engine in anything in the U.S. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) The engine makes 183 hp stock. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I may wait on this for next winter, though.

Pat

[felton316]

1987 Honda CBR, returning it from an endurance racer to everyday street life, with F4i fairings.

Building my first AR-15, just waiting on the USPS for the rest of the parts to arrive.

Building a shed in the backyard to reclaim some garage space for projects. It really sucks working in a driveway when its cold outside.

[BigEnos]

My house. It's a stone cape-cod that has been upgraded and added on to, but it still needed some work. I got tired of contributing so much to global terror by using so much fuel oil and tore out the plaster in the 2nd floor so I could insulate. There was almost none in there. Now the drywall has been done and the insulation is up, muuuucchhhh better. Heat doesn't run nearly as much and the house is a lot nicer inside. Now I just gotta paint/trim, hang ceiling fans, furnish, sand the floors.... (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/whip.gif)

Once that is done, it'll be time to rewire the garage so I actually have more than one 100 watt bulb in there, then once it gets warm I'll be putting up a shed and doing some light landscaping....

Shoulda bought a condo. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/nutkick.gif)

[JKnight]

I too have an Se-R, a burgundy (marroon?) '93 that is patiently waiting for me to fix the transmission leak (bad seal around a sensor hopefully) and to slap on the big brake kit that I bought for it. It's going to be next year's race car. If I ever get the Camaro done, of course.

Jason

This post has been edited by JKnight: Dec 28 2005, 02:53 PM

[Mericet]

Starting to work on finishing and insulating my garage. Once that is done I will restart work on the first car in my signature.

[robz71lm7]

Well I still have to finish my 10/22. Other than that make a welding cart and finish setting up my mig welder. I also have some work to do on our 20' fish 'n ski. The outboard, 175 hp Mercury, has a bad water pump. I really miss fishing (bass, catfish, etc.).

Anyone else fish or boat?

Lonnie have you considered a lowered panhard bar on that Samurai? (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rotf.gif)

[John Boelte]

I've got two boats - 14' Grumman fishing boat (Dad gave me the family fishing boat) and a 17' Sea Ray bowrider w/130 HP OMC. Probably need to redeck the Sea Ray next fall. I'm not too much into the fishing now, my kids are 7 & 9 thye don't really have the patience for it right now. We're more into running from one idle zone to the other and swimming (gotta have beer to swim (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) ).

[torontoZ28]

I am renovating my sister's basement. If I had known how much dust drywalling creates, I probably would have thought twice about agreeing to help her out.

[trackbird]

Well I still have to finish my 10/22.

I just bought one of those and have been making a few changes to it. I guess I'm going to have to buy a scope and actually shoot it soon (who shoots a stock one?).

[GlennCMC70]

disapointed in you guys. your not the hard core car guys i thought you were. i do nothing but think and work on my CMC car. before that it was the 98Z.
hell, i even named my 2nd child "car"....... well really its Karlie, but close enough. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

the Samurai sounds fun. needs an LS1/T-56 swap.

[robz71lm7]

Specialization is for the animals. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif)

[marka]

Howdy,

I'm with Brian on the house stuff...

Nearly done re-wiring the attached garage that will be the temporary workshop until we get the real workshop built (a year or two out most likely). After that, there's insulation, some carpentry/plumbing work to get a sink in there and a gas line for the heater, busting up the existing (too low & horribly cracked) floor and repouring a new one, raising the garage doors to account for the new floor height, drywall, installing a heater, then whatever bench/shelf building is needed.

When I write all that out though, I mostly just want to take a nap instead. :-)

Mark

[nape]

My boss/friend has about 3 '71 GTO/LeMans convertibles that are going to be used to restore one good car but before that project happens, he wants to do some work to his current '71 GTO convertible to make it a nicer looking cruiser.

His back is giving out on him so he needs someone to do all the "fun" work like removing the dash and where it would help to be a contortionist.

My project some time this summer is to remove the drywall in my parent's garage to insulate it, then tape/paint it since it's been yellowing for the last 15 years. It'll be a nice present for them and make it nicer to work in. I'm sick of having to run the torpedo heater so much in the winter if I want to use the garage.

[teamDFL]

Tonight the 3.0 Duratec goes into my my friend Wes's Contour SVT (originally a 2.5). I am still looking for 100% approval from the finance department before I start my f-body projects!

[35th_Anniversary...]

I bought HP+ pads for the y-body from Sam after driving a C5 conv with them.

Other than that it I am sinking $1100 into my truck on a "classified project". Maybe I'll get around to fixing the fuel sender in the tank so I know how much deisel is in there.

[trackbird]

I'm also looking at laminate flooring for the first floor of the house and planning to rebuild my home theater (new DLP, amp, processor, speakers, sub, etc). So, I'm torn between guns and home stuff.

Maybe I should sell the car after all...... :leaving:

[firehawkclone]

disapointed in you guys. your not the hard core car guys i thought you were. i do nothing but think and work on my CMC car. before that it was the 98Z.
hell, i even named my 2nd child "car"....... well really its Karlie, but close enough. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)

the Samurai sounds fun. needs an LS1/T-56 swap.

I'm with you....I work on the bird for the track weekends, or i work on the RV to pull the bird to track weekends.Or i work on my truck so it looks/ run's good on my way to work were i can make $$$, so i can take the bird/ RV to the track(you getting the idea here) OR i work on my wife's car so........ (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif)

My first love was 4x4ing back in the day. I had a buddy then that had a samurai, everybody made fun of him in it (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/dry.gif) but nobody could out do him but me, in a stock chevy (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/tongue.gif) We beat up on those raised up trucks (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rotf.gif)